Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-27
HYDRUPHOBIA.
Two Remarkable Gases In Chicago
Moses Nayermaa Hips After Eight
Months Terrible Suffering
Another Man Whoss SON Died Last juno
from a Dog Bite Also About
to Die.
Chicago Herald.

CulCdSO 11GIAlus
One of the most sQusiid and forlOrn OF
the Dywa7s of Chicsgo is Victoria alley,
on the South Side, between State stree
and Wabash avenue, south from Harmon
court. Il is an unpreposessing place for
blacksmith shop even-repulslve for 8
home. But just inside the alley of
Harmon court is small brick building
which served for both chop and
home for small family of Polish Jews,
Simon Wolfsen, young blacksmith, hls
/ wife, and his wife's brorner, Moses
MaVermau, OF twenty three, who worked
in Wolisen's shop. The place and It's sur
roundings would, under ordinary circum
stances, repel visitors except Of their own
degree, put for the lass two days il has
had an
INTEREST FOR THE DOCTORS AND THE
STUDENTS
Of the Bennett Medical College, stones
throw distant, of paramount Importance
For two days it has been the scene Of one
Of the most awful and Distress
ing struggles between life and
death that man eau be called on to
undergo. It was an unusual struggle,
for the agent of death was that grim and
dreadful disease that seldom loses q
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. For t4irty Six long,
sleepless hours, crowded with agony,
young Moses Mayerman tossed and
Struggled in almost co0stanl spasms,
every respiration causing intense pain,
until death merclfully put al end TO his
sofferiDgs. 1t is one Of the
RARE AUTHENTICATED CASKS OF RABIES,
where the diseas di1 not appear for
months after the incubation, and from g
medical standpoint is unusually interest
iGg, though from q human standpoint
most distressing. Ga March 8, 1887,
young Mayerman tried to give pet oog
that was ailing & dose Of castor oil,
remedy that had been recommended By 8
friend. The dog would not open his
mouth, and Mayermen tried 10 pry It's
teeth apart with his fOrefnger. He sue
ceeded IN getting his fnger into tn dogs
mouth when the animal closed Its Jaws
AID
MAYERMAN'S FINGER WAS BITTEN.
And the skin broken Ill several places, the
hood flowing freely. He realized then
the possible danger, and IusneG into
drug store on State street t. ask for help
Cauter zsrlon WAS advised, ard the fnger
was thoroughly burned. After the wound
healed Msyerman suffered no iHcOnven-
ience, and in the months that had
passed up to last Sunday morning
he az his relatives had almost forgotten
ne painful incident and tneir fears Sat-
urdsY night he Complained of not feeling
we'll, but there were no symptoms of any
thing serious. But Sunday morning
about O'Clock his bfother-in-lsW, SimoD
WofseD, heard a noise ike groan in his
room, and went in TO see what was the
mater. Msyerman was lying on his
back
GAsPING FOR BREATH AND CHOKING
He asked for water, but could not swal-
low II, and the effort threw him into
spssm. He grew worse, and his sister
and brother-in-law, unable to help him,
went for physicians. DR.. Henry S Tuck.
er, of the Bennett Medical college, was
one of the ffst cslled, and visited
the sick man about o'clock Sunday
morning He at once concluded that be
was suffering from hydrophobis, and as
other physicians VINO had been notified
dropped in, all reached the sane conclu-
sion. BzsIdes tae spasms end violent
coughing, another convincing symptom
was his almost ioce ssant spiEting, which
ie most distinctive characteristic of the
disease.
DIFFERENT REMEDIES WE'RE GIVEN
the sufferer duriag me day Ia the hoDa
OF masking respiration easier aud quietlng
the spasms, bat they seemed to nave 10
effect. The sufferer grew steadily worse